Camryn Manheim

At 63 years old, Camryn Manheim has this physical status:

Camryn Manheim (born Debra Manheim, March 8, 1961) is an American actress known for her appearances on ABC's The Practice, Delia Banks' 'The Work, Dearness, And Person of Interest "Control" on CBS's "Elephant and "Control" on Person of Interest.

In 1998, Manheim received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role on The Practice.

Early life

Debra Manheim was born in West Caldwell, New Jersey, into a Jewish family, the niece of Sylvia (née Nuchow), a librarian), and Jerome Manheim, a mathematics professor and the Dean of Letters and Science at California State University Long Beach. Due to her father's retirement, she and her family migrated several times in her early childhood, and she spent her early years in Michigan and Peoria, Illinois.

When Manheim was in sixth grade, her family moved to Southern California, settling in Long Beach, where she attended Woodrow Wilson Classical High School. After being involved in a Renaissance faire during high school, she became interested in acting. Manheim obtained a BFA degree in 1984 and a Masters of the Arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program in 1987. Karl Manheim, her brother, is a law professor at Loyola Law School.

Personal life

Milo Jacob Manheim, Manheim's son, was born on March 6, 2001.

Manheim has been involved with the Los Angeles-based charity Bet Tzedek Legal Services – The House of Justice, as a co-chair for their annual fundraising, the Justice Ball.

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Career

Manheim worked for a while as a sign language interpreter at hospitals. Her knowledge of sign language was used on The Practice, in an episode of Law & Order, and in her role as a child behavioral psychologist in the movie Mercury Rising. In 1983, she made a brief appearance as a girl in an elevator in Sudden Impact in the post-courtroom scene at the beginning.

Manheim's breakthrough was her one-woman show "Wake Up, I'm Fat", which played off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company in 1994. She adapted the show into a book of the same name, which was published by Broadway Books in 1999.

In 1999, Manheim collected an Emmy for her work on The Practice. In 1999, she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award.

In 2005, Manheim earned Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her work in the miniseries Elvis, and the following year she joined the cast of Ghost Whisperer. Her other television credits include Chicago Hope, Ally McBeal, Family Guy, Will & Grace, Boston Public, Two and a Half Men, The L Word, How I Met Your Mother and Hannah Montana. She also voiced Juliet in the episode "Company Picnic" of Dilbert on UPN in 2000.

In addition, Manheim has several film credits. These include Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Happiness (which earned the cast a National Board of Review Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble), The Laramie Project, Scary Movie 3, Dark Water and An Unfinished Life.

In 2015, Manheim was in the Deaf West production of the musical Spring Awakening as Adult Women. The production, which had a cast composed half of hearing actors and half of deaf or hard-of-hearing actors, paired every deaf actor (who signed their lines in American Sign Language) with a hearing actor who said their lines verbally. Manheim voiced for Marlee Matlin as well as signing her own dialogue in the parts of Frau Bergmann, Fräulein Großebüstenhalter, and Fräulein Knuppeldick.

In August 2019, she was elected secretary-treasurer of the SAG-AFTRA union. Manheim was elected to the secretary-treasurer position with 16,047 votes. Candidates Jodi Long, Chuck Slavin and Rob Stats received 10,251, 2,204 and 1,790 votes respectively. She did not run for reelection in 2021, and was succeeded by Joely Fisher.

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